Word: sitzkrieg
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Seeing that Reynaud, after more than a week of premiership, appeared to offer only the same old Sitzkrieg, many Frenchmen could not see why Daladier should not be recalled to re-form his Cabinet, again without Socialists, and get on with the unexciting policy urged by nearly all military experts: to strangle the Germans until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French...
GREAT BRITAIN Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg...
...Parliament) prepared to go home for Easter. One question still weighed on Parliament's collective mind (and on the minds of lots of other people), so the Chamberlain Government briskly addressed itself to relieving the pressure. The question: Were the Allies wise to pursue their seven-month "Sitzkrieg...
...shifts prompted by the near-scandal in the Supply Ministry or a public desire for more or less war action were scheduled for consideration by the Government during the Easter recess. Indications were that they would not be nearly so drastic as those in France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership of Hardware...